Which is probably greater in mercury — cohesion or adhesion

The adhesion between the water and glass molecules is stronger than the cohesion between the water molecules. Mercury, on the other hand, forms a convex meniscus. ... That's because mercury atoms are more attracted to each other by cohesion than they are to glass by adhesion

hormones in blood stream

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endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood stream near them; the hormones then travel in our bloodstream until it reaches its destination, called a target cell, in distance parts of the body. in the target tissue, hormones lock onto the target’s plasma membrane, called the receptor site.